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ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo vs MiniMax: MiniMax M3

Side-by-side comparison of specs, pricing, benchmark scores, and task rankings. Updated 2026-08-13.

ByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 Turbo MiniMax: MiniMax M3
Vendorbytedance-seedminimax
Quality Score100100
Benchmark Score-77.0
Input Price$0.50/M$0.30/M
Output Price$2.50/M$1.20/M
Context Window262,1441,048,576
Max Output262,144512,000
Tool Calling✓✓
Structured Output✓✓
Reasoning Mode✓✓
Vision✓✓
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Benchmark Scores
ai_index-74.9
ai_index_agentic-59.6
ai_index_coding-96.6

Who wins by task?

TaskByteDance Seed: Seed 2.1 TurboMiniMax: MiniMax M3
SQL Generation 130 167
Code Review 126 162
Code Completion 128 133
Code Refactoring 127 160
Bug Fixing 130 174
Unit Test Generation 121 151
Code Documentation 125 142
Regex Writing 119 134
CI/CD Pipelines 117 141
Frontend Component Design 122 143
Data Analysis 124 164
CSV / Spreadsheet Cleanup 128 153
ETL Scripting 122 151
JSON Extraction 131 148
Bulk Data Labeling 129 135
OCR / Document Parsing 128 145
Table Extraction from PDFs 128 145
Long-Document Summarization 129 157
Short-Form Summarization 123 131
Blog Post Writing 118 138

Scores reflect capability match + benchmark data + pricing for each task. Methodology →

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